The 10 best Warriors series games, ranked

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Koei’s Warriors series of games, often referred to as the Musou series, is a surprisingly large and varied franchise. There are several dozen games in the wider franchise, with settings ranging from the Three Kingdom period in China to Feudal Japan to Hyrule’s darkest hour. Playing through every single one of them would be a nigh impossible order, but you can pick and choose which ones to try. Here are our picks for the best games in the Warriors franchise.

The good thing about the Warriors franchise is that you don’t need to have played any other titles in them to follow the story. They are largely independent games unless they are directly tied to another franchise, where they often serve as a direct sequel in a new format. The trademark for a Musou game is the All vs One format, wading through armies of baddies until you find the inevitable boss fight at the end. Here are our picks for the games that pull that format off the best.

Among many fans, this is the quintessential Musou experience. While it doesn’t change up the gameplay much compared to previous titles, it does fine-tune things and gave a much-needed graphical upgrade since this was the first game in the series to be developed exclusively for the PS3. The characters look sharp and vibrate and the battlefields are bigger and more chaotic than previous hardware had allowed.

This entry into the Warriors series is a love letter to the Legend of Zelda franchise. It offers players the chance to journey across Hyrule, fighting monsters and enemies from across the game’s long history. The story takes place across three periods in the Zelda timeline – Ocarina of